Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 15:1-17. Doing the works of Christ is the purpose of all believers (John 14:12). God honoring productivity is not a New Testament idea. The first command God gave Adam and Eve, be fruitful and multiply, sounded a lot like John 15. God’s intention for creation was not only to have children but that they involve themselves in the work of the earth - cultivating and creating. This fruitfulness was in the context of abiding with God. In John 15, we see that the recovery of communion with Christ brings a recovery of God honoring productivity (fruitfulness). Both physical and spiritual productivity was necessary and expected as fruit bearing is the essence of glorifying God and enjoying Him forever.

Another thing we see in this passage is that the abiding wor ...